Word: clothe
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...undesirable after a breast-cancer operation, pays her black maid $15,000 to sleep with her husband. Only after much trouble and prayer does a righteous resolution ensue. Yet the co-author, composer and producer of Behind Closed Doors, which just opened in Chicago, is a man of the cloth: Bishop T.D. Jakes. Doesn't he fear failure? "My definition of success," says Jakes, 43, "is to be able to birth out every creative thought God has breathed into me before...
...with the newly discovered gasoline and comes up with the carburetor. In 1823 Scottish chemist Charles Macintosh, working with a throwaway coal tar by-product, naphtha (used to clean out dyeing vats), stumbles across the fact that it will liquefy rubber. So he spreads the rubber between layers of cloth and invents the raincoat...
CANCER-FREE CALLING INVENTOR: CALGON CARBON Studies on the potential dangers of cellular-phone radiation remain inconclusive, but WaveZorb, a thumbnail-size piece of carbon cloth that costs about eight bucks, could make them moot. Tests show that WaveZorb, adapted from military use, soaks up nearly 99% of microwave radiation--and doesn't interfere with performance. Each adhesive-backed unit lasts about six months and can be trimmed to fit any cell-phone earpiece. Too bad it can't screen calls as effectively...
...emaciated baby wrapped in blood-red strips of cloth bursts from the frame of Penelope Sipis's photograph "AIDS--Baby--Africa"--a picture of innocence and suffering in one of the world's most devastating epidemics...
...experience many now endure or, like business author Walt Goodridge, remember with dread. Goodridge recalls his seven years in the World Trade Center as a civil engineer for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. "We occupied the whole 73rd floor, more than 200 people in cloth-covered steel cubicles. Sitting, you were alone; standing, you could look directly into someone else's cube. I fixed my computer so passersby couldn't see it. But you could overhear everyone's phone conversations, and rumors spread quickly...